This year the CHAD team created an imaginary office building for the year 2020, to be built on a site one block from school, at 8th and Walnut. Team members decided to use a date twenty years from now to "free themselves from the constraints of contemporary building codes and unconquered other obstacles …like gravity!" according to one enterprising CHAD student! There was little attrition due to the high interest level of the students, allowing the group to break into two teams once designing began. The final outcome was impressive, even stimulating a bit of competition between the two groups and adding much fun to the project. A visit to the actual (pretend) construction site at the end of the project was arranged by ACE Mentors.

Three CHAD seniors each received a scholarship of $1,000 toward their study of architecture, interior design and engineering.

CHAD started this, its second ACE year, with a team headed by Scott Booth of Turner Construction Company, and architects Blaze Makoid, Alan Levy, and Peter Hahn. Their project is to design a teen recreation center for the City of Philadelphia. They have made field trips to the offices of Pennoni Engineering, the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, and the offices of The Hillier Group, Santos Levy Architects, and Turner Construction Company. The team has adopted the National Constitution Center as the project whose construction they will observe over the course of the next two years, as it is being built two blocks from the school. They have made several trips to the job site and observed presentations by Turner and its project managers.

CHAD would like to thank the ACE mentors Scott Booth of Turner Construction, Anthony Naccarato of O'Donnell and Naccarato, Chris Arnold of Wick Fisher White, John Egan, AIA, Al Levy, AIA of Santos Levy Architects, Dr. William Zucker, Professor Emeritus of the Wharton School at Penn, Peter Hahn, Blaze Makoid and John Woodman of ACE New York. Thanks also to Pomerantz and Company for their support of the CHAD Ace team. Our greatest thanks go to Dr. Charles Thornton, a new member of CHAD's Board of Trustees, for developing such a great way for students to learn about the fields of architecture, construction and engineering!